Full time
1 year
SEP
MA - Master of Arts
Heritage Administration/Management
Taught
Introduction:
This course embodies the dynamic evolution of the museum and heritage sector, emphasizing creativity, decolonization, and sustainability. You will graduate as an innovative scholar-practitioner with a global perspective, poised for diverse career paths. Beyond traditional skills, you will acquire business, leadership, and digital expertise.
Our uniqueness lies in blending scholarship and creative practice to address global challenges facing cultural institutions. Through transdisciplinary exploration, we engage with international and national entities, fostering critical thinking on issues like decolonization and social justice.
Our distinctive teaching methods include live projects, collaborative learning, and industry engagements, enhancing entrepreneurial and digital skills. The course empowers you to challenge norms and cultivate reflective practice, entrepreneurial prowess, and technological proficiency.
With an inclusive approach, partnerships, and placements with local and international organizations, you will not only be able to adapt to change but lead innovation in the dynamic landscape of museums and heritage.
The course, your placements and live projects will give you experience and skills that are highly valued by museums and the wider heritage industry employers. As well as museum curators, educators, and visitor service managers in museums and the heritage field, this course also provides the opportunity to work with and join a heritage consultancy company. Transferable skills also open opportunities in the charity sector and private industry, such as marketing and communications. Recent graduates (of our previous course, MA Museum and Heritage Management) have gone on to work for a wide range of museums and authorities including:
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The National Trust;
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English Heritage;
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Museums, Libraries and Archives Council;
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Museum database software suppliers;
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Heritage Lottery Fund; and
local authorities and independent museums.
For this course (per year)
£9,700
For this course (per year)
£17,500
You will need: a UK honours (minimum 2.2) degree or equivalent, in any subject area. Alternatively, recent practical experience with a professionally run museum or heritage organisation may be considered for applicants without the standard entry qualifications above. Applications from candidates with non-standard entry qualifications will be considered on an individual basis.
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